Right to Work

In an email sent out to all Kutztown University employees earlier today, Gerald Silberman – the university’s Right to Know Officer and Vice President of Administration and Finance – informed employees that the group Pennsylvanian’s for Union Reform has sought the release of all the home …

At the end of last week, Mike Folmer, Scott Wagner of other Republicans senators introduced Right to Work legislation. Save the shock for another time, but the bill they introduced happens to be extremely similar to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) model Right to …

Frank Emspak, Executive Producer with Workers Independent News joins Rick from Madison, WI to talk about the republican assault on workers and the recent ramming through of the wage killing Right to Work law. Listen to Frank’s interview HERE

Phil Neuenfeldt, President WI AFL-CIO Phil Neuenfeldt, President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO joins Rick to talk the assault on workers. It’s been quite a week with an out-of-control Republican dominated state legislature and a Governor who’s looking to run for president on his credentials …

Brendan M Fischer, General Counsel at The Center for Media and Democracy joins Rick from Wisconsin to talk about the most recent phase of the No Rights at Work Agenda making Wisconsin a no Rights to Work state. Listen to Brendan’s interview HERE

I have a pit in my stomach today as I watch workers gather outside the Wisconsin state Capitol once again to push back against the latest attack on working families in the Badger State. In 2011, in response to Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union, anti-public higher …

If you have been following the assault on working families, labor unions, and public education over the past several years then you probably know what the slogan “It Started in Wisconsin” means. For those of you who haven’t really been paying attention but are just …

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